Did you know . . . ?

It's another tasty good episode of the Revolution 21 podcast, and it's also time for a game of Did You Know?

Hey! Ho! Let's go!

DID YOU KNOW . . . that Rickie Lee Jones improvised many -- if not all -- the songs on her latest album Sermon on Exposition Boulevard, which is based on her friend Lee Cantelon's book The Words? Cantelon wrote the book as a modern-day paraphrase of the words of Christ in the Gospels, rearranging them by topic.

Originally, Jones was to do readings of passages from the book. But she had an idea. . . .

Jones' idea to do improvised songs based on those passages revolutionized the project, and resulted in a fine album. A fine album. On the Big Show this week, we'll hear "Falling Up," the first single off Sermon.

DID YOU KNOW . . . who the backup vocalist is on Gram Parsons' cover of "Love Hurts"?

Same lady who was his partner in song on all of the legendary Grievous Angel album and for the rest of his career until his untimely death -- the equally legendary Emmylou Harris.

Oh . . . and you might know "Love Hurts" better from Nazareth's cover a year later, in 1975. Originally written by Boudleaux Bryant, it was first cut by the Everly Brothers in 1960. Didn't hit the Top 40 then, though.

The most recent cover? Rod Stewart, last year.

AND, DID YOU KNOW . . . that Rory Gallagher was the Irish rocker who paved the way for the long string of Irish rockers to come? On the show, we hear "Shin Kicker" from Gallagher's 1978 LP Photo-Finish.

Rory Gallagher got his start in the early '60s, I think, then formed the band Taste in 1966. He went on to solo work after Taste broke up in 1970, achieving Guitar God status during his too-short career.

Gallagher died in London on June 14, 1995, at age 47, victim of a staph infection following a liver transplant.

And that's it for Did You Know . . . on The Big Show.

Now go and listen to the podcast, won't 'ya?